Naim Olive

Someone will be along shortly suggesting a Supercap with or without DR. And they may not be wrong, but it would be a tricky conversation for me to have with my wife.
If it were me, I’d try it with an Olive HiCap, not least because I have a serviced spare.

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Which, by coincidence, is what I use for my Headline 2. One teeny tiny box…sitting next to a very large PSU! :laughing:

OTOH, I’ve been playing around with my olive Headline on the end an RPi streamer, which may well end up in the lounge…this Headline is powered by a spare NAPSC.

Of course the Hicap has an obvious advantage over the NAPSC…it’s got an ON/OFF switch!

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I look forward to trying this out, had been looking for a while on EBay for one and had missed out on 2 previous attempts. Its another Olive box which is good :slight_smile:

I use Sennheiser HD650 headphones, which do quite nicely.

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Compared with the Napsc, the Napsc2 benefits from a larger transformer, and the aluminium case is also better than the sheet metal case of the first Napsc. As well as a Napsc2, I have a Scap Black and a ScapDR. The 2 Scaps give better results than the Napsc for powering a Headline, but the Napsc2 gives satisfactory results in view of the pleasant format; the hicap plays a little better than the Napsc2, for me Headline is good with Napsc or naturally with Scap.

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Agree, the Napsc2 is also a good upgrade for a Nac 82.

I’ve got a NAPSC2 on my 82, but can’t say I’ve noticed a great difference.

Looks better on the rack though. :grin:

ROFL!

Move it away as far as possible from the Nac 82,for even better sound.

It’s already about as far away (vertically) as the cable will reach.
:person_shrugging:

I suppose I could try knocking up an extender cable…….

That’s fine :+1:
Plug :electric_plug: it in away from the other equipment.

Not possible.
If I was still working, I’d run the NAPSC into our EMC test group for them to have a look at its emissions spectra for “radiated” & “conducted”.

(with suitable liquid compensation for taking up their lunch time, obviously :grinning:).

Unless Salisbury would let me use their very nice EMC chamber and some test gear!

Don’t worry,I have tested Napsc 2 ’s vs Napsc’s and the Napsc 2 is better.

But from a purely Elect. Eng. ** point of view, it would be interesting to compare the RE/CE between a NAPSC1 & NAPSC2.

**and Oi still are one……provided I keep giving ‘em the money in January! :laughing:

Hooked the Headline to my 72 and sounds great. Hurt back at the weekend, so can’t crawl about and connect to my 82 yet.
Will look for a Slic so I can see how the sound changes with a HC.

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Ninety quid from Audio Affair, Birmingham.

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Yeah and then if I prefer the HC, I will need to factor in one of those too. :slight_smile:
Maybe after Christmas or Santa might bring me one if I have been good this year.

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